Arrangement for introducing voltages into alternating-current circuits



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ARRANGEMENT FOR INTRODUCING VOLTAGES INTOALTERNATING CURRENT CIRCUITS a Filed May 3, 1928 3 Sheets-Sheet l fig;

ATITORNEY M. LIWSCHITZ ARRANGEMENT FOR INTRODUCING VOLTAGES INTO ALTERNATING CURRENT QIIIKTUIN Filed May 3, 1928 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 fig: 4

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M. LIWSCHITZ ARRANGEMENT FOR INTRODUCING VOLTAGBS INTO ALTERNATLNG CURRENT CIRCUITS Filed May 3, 1928. 5 SheetsSheet 3 ATTORNEY Patented Oct. 21, 1930 STATES PATENT @FFECE MICHAEL LIVV'SCI-II'IZ,v OF BERLIN-CHARLCTTENB'UBG, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO WEST- INGHOUSE ELECTRIC & MANUFACTURING COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF PENN- SYLVANIA ARRANGEMENT FOR INTRODUCING VOLTAGES INTO ALTEENATING-CURRENT CIRCUITS Application file-:1 May 3, 1928, Serial No.

My invention relates to an arrangement for introducing voltages into alternating current circuits, in particular into alternating current circuits of variable frequency. One object of my invention is to introduce voltages into alternating current circuits which are proportional either to the currentonly or to the current and the frequency in the alternating current circuit.

A further object of my invention is to produce a three-phase regulator unit for a cascaded variable-speed induction-motor set, characterized by having a cascaded commutator machine which is provided with a stator eXciter winding, and a slip frequency exciting means therefor including a source of voltage such as to neutralize the inductive voltage drop of the exciter winding at all times.

A still further object of my invention is to provide a three-phase regulator unit of the class just mentioned, in which the aforesaid neutralizing voltages are proportional to the square of the slip. so that they neutralize the voltages which interfere with the regulation process, which are likewise proportional to the square of the slip.

Several embodiments of my invention are illus ated. in the drawings affixed hereto and forming part of my specification.

wherein 1 is a diagrammatic view of circuits and apparatus embodying my invention in a system in which an alternating current line is i 'ulated by apparatus whereby voltages are introduced proportional to the current of the line 2 is a similar view showing a modified system in which the damping of an oscillating circuit is reduced or altered by the introduction of a my invention,

Fig. 8 is a similar view show'ng novel ree phase regulator set applied to ng circuit of the cascaded com machine of a doublyfed inductio. set. and

L 5 6 and 7 are similar views showndifications of the system shown in voltage according to and in Germany May 4, 1927.

Referring to Fig. l, 1 is an alternating current transmission line, the ohmic or inductive voltage drop of which is to be compensated by an additional voltage. For this purpose there are provided two rotating frequency converters or changers 2 and 3, which are coupled with each other and are driven y an asynchronous motor fed from the mains. The frequency converters are connected in series through the commutator sides and through a transformer 5 with tap changing mechanism a single-line diagram being indicated in the drawing, it being understood, of course. that a plurality of brushes are used on the commutator. One of the frequency converters, as the converter 3, is equipped with a compensating wi'i'iding or polyphase neutralizing winding 6 which ensures that the output of the frequency converter 3'is not transferred to the exciter circuit of the second frequency converter 2. but is transmitted in the form of mechanical torque to or from the driv 'ig machine 4.

The slip ring sides of the two frequency converters are connected with two current transformers 7 and 8 connected in the alternating current system 1. Owing to the compensating winding 6, the line 1 is regulated by the introduction of a voltage which is proportional to the current in the line. In order to reduce the output of the driving motor 4 to a minimum value which suliices for covering the no-load losses, the brushes of the frequency converters are preferablyset in such position that the voltage introduced into the line l by the frequency converter 2 has aphase displacement of 90 with respect to the current of the line, so that mechanical output is not transferred from the frequency I converter 3 to the asynchronous motor 4 or taken up from it, as only wattle'ss outputis transmitted to it from the frequency converter 2. As will be explained more fully hereinafter in connection with the current transformer 17 of Fig. 3 and the current transformers 210, 212 and 213 of Fig.4, the exciting-circuit currenttransformer 8 of 1 is also designed as a reactionless transformer.

\Vhile Ihave described a transformer 8 nating current circuit, a voltage which is proportional to thecurrent in this circuit, or the adjust-ability of the phase of this voltage also, theoretically offers the possibility of increasing or reducing the ohmic, the inductive or the capacitive resistance (the impe- I dance) of the alternating current circuit in any manner desired, by introducing a voltage having a phase angle of 0 or 180 with respect; to either the ohmic voltage drop or with respect 'tothe inductive or capacitive voltages in this circuit, or having both components. The magnitudes of the voltages introduced in this way are such as to reduce the ohmic resistance of an alternating; current circuit to any desired extent down to. zero or even to convert it into a'negative ohmic resistance or-to increase, the ohmic resistance in any desired manner without involving a corresponding increase of the losses, since the energy isnot converted into heat, but is recovered in the driving machine- It is thus possible, .by my improved arrangement, to

improvethe condition of a transmission line with respect to resonance, because I can increase its damping, by increasing its ohmic resistance, or I can change vtheresonance frequency so that it will not coincide with an'important harmonic frequency,'gby controlling the inductive or capacitive volt- .ages,ial1 of this being accomplishedby the 'mutator-brush setting, when the machines -mounted on the shaft of the main induction on the commutators."

proper choice of transformer ratios and com are assembled.

Fig. 2 of the. drawmgs shows an embodlment of my invention in which the twofrequency converters 2 and 3 serve to influence orcontrol the value of the ohmic and induc tive resistances in a. local alternating currentcircuithaving the self-induction L, the capacity G and the ohmic resistance R. The frequency converter 3 is for this purpose con nected across an ohmic resistance r, which is connected inthe aforesaid local circuit, as shown in Fig. 2, so that the frequency converter-3 is excited with a voltage proportional to the current. According to thephase of the voltage given off by the frequency converter 2 theinductance L or-the-ohmic resistanceR of the circuit may. then be acted upon, according to thefphase angles of the brushes- The c nnect n f the. fr q encye ert i' nating current circuit to be regulated isofi variable frequency, as for instance when. it is the secondary circuit of an asynchronous ma chine or when it is'the exciting circuit of a. cascaded commutator machine of a doublyfed induction-motor set, as will subsequently be described. If, on the other hand, a currenttransformer is used instead of the ohmic resistance rof the Fig. 2, in a variable frequency alternating current circuit, the volta e introduced by the regulating set 2, 3 depends not onlyon the value of the current in this circuit, but also, on the frequency. This arrangement may therefore be used, as will now be described in connection with Fig.

' tojust counterbalance the inductive voltage drop in the alternating current circuit, since this inductive voltage drop varies according to the same laws; It is well known that this compensation of the inductive voltage drop plays an important partin the-exciter circuit of stator excited cascaded commutator machines of doubly-fed induction-motor sets.

'Such an arrangement is shown in Fig. 3 of the drawing. Referring to this figure, a main asynchronous machine, 12, whose speed is to be regulated, is fed from the mains 11, and 1s providedwith a secondary circult m which is connecteda cascaded commutator machine i 13 mechanically coupled with an asynchronous load machine 111, for the purposeof regulating the speed of the main machine."

* The commutator machine 13 is equipped with an exciting winding 16 on the stator member thereof,.wh1ch is excited from the mams 11 through a regulating, transformer 18 and through ,a frequency converter 1a which. is

verter 1 is furnished'witha compensation winding'112;

By reactionless,'I meanthat the current v transformer 17 is so constructed thatithe reaction or effect ofrthe secondarye current on the primarycurrent is substantially negligi ble as compared to the magnetlzmg current which always flows in the, primary Winding. In an ordinary current transformer, the reaction efiectis very nearly 100% strong, so that a very definite relation exists between the primary voltage and the secondary voltage, but in a reactionless current transformer, the primary voltage and current are scarcely affected at all by the secondary voltage and current. This is accomplished, obviously, by making the magnetizing ampere-turns so large hat the secondary ampere-turns .are very small in comparison, which can be easily brought about by providing an air gap in the transformer. By this means, a small amount of power, or volt-amperes, is derived from the current transformer 17, and this power, when properly converted in frequency, by means of the frequency converter 15, is fed, as exciting current, into the slip rings of the machine l i,

I which is, in effect, a commutator-type generator, deriving power from its shaft, which is also the shaft ot the mam induction motor 12, and supplying energy to the exciting winding circuit of the cascaded commutator machine 18, at a voltage proportional to the excitation current which was fed into the slip rings of the commutator-type generator 14. Since the current transformer 17 is react-ionless, the phase of the secondary voltage thereof is always 90 displaced from the primary current, because the latter is substantially all magnetizing current; and the position of the commutator brushes of the converter 15 is so set that the component of exciting current supplied to the commutator-type generator 1st by the converter 15 is in such phase as to compensate for the reactance voltage drop of the. exciting circuit of the cascaded machine 13 in which the current transformer 17 is connected. If the current transformer 17 were of the usual reaction type, there would be a fixed relation between the output current of the commutator-type generator 14, which flows in the primary side of the current transer, and the quadrature component of the ng current of the generator 14, which, in a converted form, flows in the secondary side of the transformer. This would make it impossible to regulate the output of the commutator-type generator 1% by means of the regulating transformer 18, and hence my reactionless transformer, or its equivalent, must be usec somewhere in the circuits in order to make the apparatus effectively operative for the purpose specified.

To the slip rings of the frequencyconverter l i are thus supplied one component, which is the seconoary voltage of the regulating transformer 18 and a second component, in quadrature relation thereto, which is derived from the secondary voltage of the currer transformer 17. The valve and the phase of the secondary voltage of the current transformer 17 are preferably so chosen that it neutralizes the inductive voltage drop resultmain machines, since, in the ing from the flowof the exciting current in the entire exciting circuit, and principally in the stator exciting winding 16 of the cascaded commutator machine, and in the primary winding of the current transformer 17.

On regulating the speed of the main induction machine 12 by altering the current in the exciting winding 16 of the cascaded commutator machine 13, only the voltage for cover ing the ohmic drop in the winding 16 is set by the adjustment of the regulating t *ansformer 18. The voltage for covering the inductive voltage drop of the exciting winding circuit is then automatically supplied by the current transformer 17. One regulating apparatus is thus all that is necessary.

If the transformationratio of the current transformer 17 is not quite the exact amount required for the neutralization of the react ance voltages in its primary circuit, the speed of the asynchronous main machine 12 will be dependent, in some (lQfilllLQ degree, upon the load. The current transformer 17 then acts as compounding transformer, supplying to the transformer 18 a voltage component either in phase or in phase opposition with the voltage generated by the transformer 18 itself.

In the system illustrated in Fig. l of the drawings, the two frequency converters 26 and 27 are mechanically coupled with a small auxiliary asynchronous motor 211, so that they run with a speed independent of the speed of the main asynchronous machine, which is of particular advantage in the case of slowly running asynchronous latter case, a gearing between the asynchronous main machine and the frequency converters is necessary because the commutator machines are essentially high-speed machines, becoming unwieldy in size if the rotational electromotive forces therein are small.

The main asynchronous machine 21 of Fig. 4 is regulated by means of a cascaded commutator machine in such a manner that the output of the asynchronous machine is either completely independent of the slip or has any desired adjustable relation to the slip. In the first case the secondary voltage of the asynchronous machine is constantly neutralized by the voltage developed by the cascaded commutator machine, and the secondary current of the asynchronous machine is generated by a voltage introduced through the cascaded commutator machine independently of the slip. In the second case a certain adjustable fraction of the secondary voltage of the asynchronous machine is neutralized by the cascaded commutator machine. To attain this last-mentioned end, the stator exciter winding 23 of the cascaded commutator machine 22 is fed, in series connection, from a voltage propon tional to the slip and from a voltage inden loo amount, owing to the speed variations of the mjain machlne to whlch it is connected. This compensatmn or correct-1on1s needed because winding 23.

pendent of the slip. supplied by an auxiliary winding in thesecondary part of the main machine 21 through auxiliary slip rings 24. This vol transmitted, to the frequency converters 26 and 27 which energize the exciter winding 23, through a regulating transformer 25.

The voltage independent of the slip is supplied from the line through a regulating strength of the exciting current and to the slip frequency. This relation also holds good for the secondary voltage in the cur rent transformer 210, which is supplied, through the frequency converter 26, to the slip rings of the frequency converter 27 and thus to the exciting winding 23. The current transformer 210 and the frequency converters 26, and '27 are so dimensioned and adjusted in phase, that they neutralize the inductive voltage drop, in the exciting Of the twO 7 frequency converters 26 and 27 at least one, for example the converter27, is provided with acompensationwinding 112, asin Fig. 3. 1

The voltage of the current transformer 210 in Fig. 42 1s also employed tocompensate for the deviations of the commutator voltage of the cascaded .machine 22 from the proper thecommutator voltage of the cascaded machine 22 is proportional to thespeed as well as to the strength of the exciting field or the excitingcurr'ent in the stator field winding 23. To this end,the .transfcrmer210 is built as an inductionregulator, so that the phases of its secondary voltage may easily be adjusted in such a. manner that it is composed of two components at right anglc-sto one another, oneof which covers the inductive voltage drop in the exciting circuit of "the winding 23, and the other of which" compensates for the influence of the speed variations of the cascaded commutator machine o The regulation process in the main machine 21 is disturbed by stray voltages generated by the load current in the secondary winding thereof, particularly when the regulation is set for constant output independent of the slip. To neutralize the effectof these stray The first voltage is cage is 7 machine. p

The two transformers 212 and 213 oppose 9 exciting windlng 20.

voltages, a second current transformer 212'is provided, the primary winding of which is connected in the main secondary circuit of the main machine 21 and the secondary winding of which is electrically coupled in series circuit relation to the exciting winding23- of the cascaded machine, as by being connected in the secondary clrcuit of the first-mentloned current transformer 210, as shownin Fig. 4.

' The stray voltages caused by thesecondary.

load current induce also a disturbing voltage in the, auxiliarysecondary winding connected tothe shp rings 24. To neutralize tins voltage, therefore, a. third current transformer-213 is provided, having a primary winding which is jconnectedin the main secondary circuit of the main machine '21, and

having a secondary winding which is connect ed in the circuit of the said auxiliary secondary winding. Thls current transformer 213 1s for the purpose ofintroducing a voltagecom-- ponent proportional totheslip in the main secondary windln g of the main asynchronous each other and thus produce the effect of a single transformer connected between the main secondary circuit of the main-machine 21 and the, circuit of the auxiliary secondary winding which is connected to the slip rings 24.

- Since the inductive voltage drop in the.

exciting circuitof the cascaded commutator machine 22 is constantly and automatically neutralized, the voltages acting on'the exciting circuit and supplied by thetwo regulating transformers 25 and 28 have to cover the ohmicvoltage drop only. 'This ohmic voltage dropis, however, very small. ,The regulation by means ofthe transformers 25 and 28 istherefore difficult and not in sufficiently fine steps, since it is not easy tovconstruct tapping transformers for fine step regulatlon for very low voltages. To improve the regulation, ohmiciresistances 214 are, therefore, connected in the circuit of the These resistors 214 raise the regulating voltages to be. supplied by the ,transformers'25 and 28 to any extent I desired, The ohmicresistances 214: may themselves be regulable and may then be made use of for the regulation, for instance the regulation in fine steps. p

The frequency converter 26 in Fig. 4 is typical of any machine having a slip frequencycarryingwinding connected'to the secondary side of the currenttransformer 210,

while a second; winding, with higher frequency, feeds the slip rings of the frequency converter 27 The current transformer'210 and the-frequency converter 26 together per form. the function of deriving a voltage responsive to the exciting current and the frequency of the cascadedfcommutator machine 22 and supplying aoproportionate high-fro i voltages into their qu'en'cy voltage to the slip rings of the frequency converter 27.

The arrangement illustrated in Fig. 4 has the further advantage, that the transformers 212 and 213 and in particular the regulating transformer are very small, since they do not feed the exciting winding directly but merely excite the frequency converter 27 which feeds the exciting winding 23. Since the main frequency converter 27 is equipped with a compensating winrnng, the other frequency converter has to-s'upply only the exciting KVA of the main frequency converter 27, which amounts to about of the KVA output of said main frequency converter. i' he size of the transformers 25, 212 and 213 may be still further reduced by providing the main frequency converter 27 with a stator exciter winding 216 which is connected in shunt across the commutator of the converter by means of an extra set of brushes thereon, as shown. The exciting KVA which has to be supplied to the rotor of the frequency converter 27 through the slip rings is thus reduced to a fraction of the total excitation of the machine. In series with the stator exciting winding 216 there are connected ohmic resistances 215 of suhicient magn tude to avoid direct current self-excitation.

The current transformers 210, 212 and 213 are preferably designed as reactionless trans fo as hereinabove explained in con; tion with the current transformer 17 of i 3. In this way, they introduce the desired secondary circuits, but there is practically no reaction or reflect-ion of the secondary current upon the primary circuit. To secure this result, the transformers are constructed with large air gaps, so that they take up large magr tizing currents. For a usting the correct p; of the various votlages, one or more of the said transformers 210, 212 and 213 may furthermore be designed as induction regulators, as has already been mentioned in connection with ti o transformer 210, the neutralization of the reaction being attained in particularly simple manner by utilizing an extraordinarily large width of air gap therein.

Fig. 5 of the drawings illustrates a further improvement of the system shown in Fig. 3. in which at least one of the frequency converters 1 and 15 (in particular the one without the compensation winding 112) is provided with stator exciter windings connected to the commutator. It is thus necessary t supply a considerably smaller rotor exciting if o the slip ringsof the frequency ccnve 3 thus equipped, because said converts now becomes a generator, drawing power from the shaft, so that the current i give off only a correspondingly smaller so ondary out-put, resulting in a corresponding reduction in the size of the transformer. in

5 this figure, 12 is again the main asynchronous machine the speed of which is to be regulated; and 13 is the cascaded commutator machine provided with the slip frequency exciting winding 16 in the stator. It is excited from the transformator 18 connected to the line 11, through the frequency converter 14. For n'eiu'ralisin'g the inductive voltage drop in the circuitof the exciting winding 16, there is provided the current transformer 17, the secondary voltage of w 11Cl1 .is supplied to the transformer 18 after being transformed by the second frequency converter The frequency converter let is provided with a compensation win ding 112 in the stator. The frequency converter 15., which, in the Fig. 3 :arrangem'ent, without a winding in the stator, is now equipped with the shunt exciting winding 113 in the stator, which is fed from the commutator. The exciting KVA supplied to the second converter from the secondary winding of the current transformer 17 now amounts to only a small fraction of the KVA supplied to the transformer .18 by the frequency converter 15.

In the circuit of the shunt excitingwin'ding 113 of the converter 15 there are also connected ohmic resistances 114, which serve both to prevent a direct current self-excitation and to prevent phase displacement ofithe exciting current when the slip frequency .is varied.

As indicated in Figs. 5 and 6, a further reduction in the size of the current transformer 17 may be attained by providing the frequency converter .14 with a shunt-connected stator exciter' winding circuit similar to the windingl216andthe resistors L215 previously described in'connection with Fig. 4:. In the systems according .to Figs. 3 to 5 the induction voltage in the compensating wind ing 112 of one of the frequency converters exercises a somewhat detrimental action on the accurate neutralization of the induction countervoltagein the variable frequency circuit (such as the exciting circuit of the cascaded commutator machine) to which currents are supplied by said frequency converters. This induction voltage in the compensating winding 1112is proportional both to the current in the circuit of variable frequency and to the square of the variable frequency. For neutralizing the influence of this induction voltage an auxiliary current transformer 19 is provided, as shown in the Figs. 6 and 7, the primary windingof which is connected in the circuit of the secondary winding of the first current transformer 17 and the secondary winding of which feeds a stator 'exciter winding 110 on the frequency converter 15 through an ohmic resistance 123.

The arrangement of Fig. 6 is otherwise substantially the same as that in Fig. 3.

Inasmuch as the transformer 17 supplies mainly watt/less secondary current, and inasmuch as the frequencyconverters 14 and to the slip frequency therein. The secondary voltage. of the transformer 19 is thus proportional to thesaid exciting current in the exciting winding 16, andis alsoproportional to the square of the slip frequency therein. A voltage following the same law as the induction voltagelof the compensating winding 112 is thus supplied, through the converter 15, tothe slip rings of the frequency converter 14, and there it neutralizes the influence of the induction voltageof the compensation winding. 112. V .a-Fig. 7 of the drawingshows a modified systemin which the smaller, or exciting, frequency converter 15'of the previous figures is constructed as an ordinary asynchronous or induction machine 124. This frequency converter 124 is equipped with two stator windings 1'15 and 110?,which are connected to' the secondary 'windings of the transformers '17 and 19 across the ohmic resistances 116 and 123, respectively. Thetwo stator windings 110 and 115 generate certain voltages in the rotor of the asynchronous machine 124 and thus also, through the converter'l4, in the circuit oftthe exciting winding 16 5 said voltages having a: component whichis proportional to the exciting current in the excitingwinding 16, and to the slip frequency thereof, so thatiit neutralizes the inductive voltage drop'in the circuit of said exciting winding 16 ;Ls'aid voltages also having a component which while the secondis proportional to the-exciting current and to the square of the slip frequency thereof, so that it neutralizes the voltage induced in the compensation winding 112.

Various modifications and changes may be made without departing from the spirit and the scopeofthe invention, and I desire, therefore, that only such limitations shall be placed I thereon as are imposed by the prior art.

I claim as my invention: 7

.1. In combination an alternating current circuit, a frequency converter having a highfrequency side and a low-frequency side, means for connecting one side of said frequency converter in said alternating current circuit, a second frequency converter also having a high-frequency side and a low-frequency side, means for connecting one side ofsaid'second. frequencyconverter to the second side ofthe' first-mentioned frequency converter, and means for supplying the-second side of said second frequency'converter with a'control voltage, characterized by the fact th'atat least one'of said frequency converters 1s a commutator machine prov1ded with acompensatmg winding anda mechanical driving means for saidcompensated ma.- chine. 2. In combination, an alternating current a circuit, a frequency-converter having a highfrequency side and :a low frequency side,

means for connecting one side of-said fre quency converter in said alternating cur-- rent circuit, a second frequency converter mechanicallylcoupled to said first-mentioned .frequency'converter and having a high-frequency side and a low-frequency side means for connecting one side of sa1dsecond frequency converter to the second side of said I first frequency converter, an impedance device connected in said alternating current C11- cuit, and means for derlvlng'a volt-age from said im Jedance device and su )l in the same to the second side of said second frequency converter, ClltllfiCtGTlZQCl by the" fact that at least one of said frequency converters is a commutator machine provided with a compensation winding;

3. In combination, an alternating current circnit, a frequency converter having a highfrequency side and a low-frequency side,

means for connecting one side of said frequen- 7 cy converterin said alternating current circuit, a second frequency converter mechanically coupled to said first-mentioned frequen- -cy converter and having a high-frequency side and a low-frequency'side, means for connecting one side of said second frequencyconverter to the second side of said first frequency converter, an inductance device 0011- nected in said alternating current circuit, and means for deriving a voltage from said inductance device and supplying the same to the second side of said second frequency converter characterized by the-fact that at least one of said frequency converters is a commutator machine provided with compensation winding.

4. In combination, an alternating current first frequency converter, an impedance device connected in said alternating current circuit, and means for deriving a voltage from said impedance device and supplying the same to the second side of said second frequencyconverter, characterized by the fact that at least one of said frequency converters is a commutator machine provided with a compensation winding.

5. In combination, alternating current circuit of variable frequency, a frequency con-,

verter having a high-frequency side and a side of low-frequency side, means for connecting one said frequency converter in said alternatin current circuit, a second frequency converter mechanically couple-d to said mentioned frequency converter and having a high-frequency side and a low-frequency sine, means for connecting one side of said second frequency converter to the second. side of d first frequency converter, a current transfoiuner connected in said alternating current circuit, and means applying the secondary voltage of said transformer to the second side of sail second frequency convert-er, characterized by the fact that at least one of said frequency erters is a commutator machine provided with a compensating Winding.

6. In combination, an alternating current circuit of variable frequency, a frequency con verter having a high-frequency side and a low-frequency side, means for con; n one side of said frequency converter in said alternating current circuit, a second frequency converter mechanically coupled to said firstmentioned frequency converter and having a highrequency side and a low-frequency side, means for connecting one side of said second frequency converter to the second side of said frequency converter, a substantially reactionless current transformer connected in said alternating current circuit, and means for applying the secondary voltage of sail reactionless transformer to the second side of said Second frequency converter, characten ized by the fact that at least one of said frequency converters is commutator machine provided with a compensating winding.

7. In combination, an asynchronous machine, a cascaded commutator machine connected in circuits feeding the secondary Wind ing of said asynchronous machine, said cascaded commutator machine having a stator acting Winding, a frequency converter having a high-frequency side and a low-frequency side, means for connecting one side of said frequency converter in the exciting winding circuit of the cascaded commutator machine, second frequency converter mechanically coupled to said first-mentioned frequency converter and having a high-frequency side and a low-frequency side, means for connecting one sine of said second frequency converter to the second side of said first frequency converter, an impedance device connected in the circuit of the exciting winding of said cascaded commutator machine, aiid means for deriving a voltage from the impedance device and applying the same to the second side of the said second frequenc-y converter, characterized by the fact that at least one of said frequency converters is a commutator machine provided with a compensation Winding.

8. In combination, an asynchronous machine, a cascaded commutator machine connected in circuits feeding the secondary quency side anda low-frequency side, means for connecting one side of said second frequency converter to the second side of said first frequency converter, a current transformer connected in the circuit of the exciting winding of said cascaded commutator machine, and means for applying the secondary voltage of said transformer t0 the second side of said frequency converter, characterized by the fact that at least one of said frequency 1 converters is a commutator machine provided with a compensation Winding.

9. In combination, an asynchronous ma chine, a cascaded commutator machine c011- nected in the secondary circuit of said asynchronous machine, said cascaded commutator machine having a stator exciting Winding, a frequency con verter having a high-frequency side and a low-frequency side, means for connecting one side of said frequency converter in the exciting Winding circuit of said cascaded commutator machine, a second frequency converter mechanically coupled to the said first-mentioned frequency converter, and having a high-frequency side and a loiv-frequency side, a regulating transformer, the primary side of the regulating transformer being connected to the primary circuit of the said asynchronous machine, electric connections between the second side of the first frequency converter and one side of the second frequency converter, the secondary Winding of said regulating transformer being included in the last-mentioned connections, a current transformer having primary and secondary windings, the primary Winding of said current transformer being connected in the enciting Winding circuit of said cascaded commutator machine, and means for applying the secondary voltage of said current transformer to the second side of the second frequency converter, chara terized by the fact that at least one of said frequency converters is a commutator machine provided with a CUH1- pensating Winding.

10. In combination, an asynchronous machine, a cascaded commutator machine connected in circuits fed from the secondary Winding of said asynchronous machine, said cascaded commutator machine having a stator exciting Winding, a frequency converter having a high-frequencv side and a loiv-frequency side, means for connecting one side of said frequency converter in the exciting Winding circuit of said cascaded connnutator machine, a second frequency converter mequency side and a low-frequency side, said frequency converters including, between them, at least one compensating winding, the

machine carrying the said compensating winding being a commutator machine, means for connecting the second side of said first frequency converter to oneside of the second frequency converter, a main current. transformerhaving a. primary circuit connected in the exciting winding circuit of said cascadedcommutator machine, and having a secondary circuit connected to the second side of said second frequency converter, said second frequency converter havingan auxiliary statorexciting winding, and an auxiliary current transformer having a primary side connected in the secondary circuit'of the said main current transformer, and having a secondary side connected to said auxiliary stator exciter winding of the said second frequency converter.

11. In combination, an asynchronous machine, a cascaded commutator machine connected in circuits fed from the secondary winding of said asynchronous machine, said cascaded commutator machine having a sta tor exciting winding, a commutator frequency converter. having one side connected in the exciting winding circuit of said cascaded commutator machine, a second commutator frequency converter mechanically coupled tothe said first-mentioned commutator frequencyconverter, means for connecting the second side of said first frequency converter to one side of the second frequency 7 converter. at least one of said frequency converters having a stator exciting winding connected to its own commutator, an impedance device in the exciting winding circuit of said cascaded commutator machine, and means for deriving a' voltage from this impedance device and applying thesame to the second side of said second frequency converter.

:12. The combination with a main polyphase wound induction motor, of a cascaded commutator machine having polyphase commutator brushes connected in series circuit relation to the secondary windings of said main induction motor, and having a stator neutralizing winding and a stator exciting winding, and means whereby torque is delivered to, or absorbed from, the shaft of said cascaded commutator machine, characterized by having a regulating apparatus for energizingsaid stator exciting winding of said cascaded commutator machine as follows: a commutator-type generator comprising a commutator circuit, a stator neutralizing circuit and an exciting circuit, the lastmentioned commutator and neutralizing circuits being serially connected to each other and tothe stator exciting winding of said cascaded commutator machine, and a source of regulable exciting currents for-the exciting circuit of said commutator-type generator, said source comprising two component serially related sources, one of said component sourcesbeing inherently responsive to the currents in said stator exciting wind-- ing ofsaid cascaded commutator machine and being operative to automatically produce a component of excitation substantially exactly such as is necessary tocompensate for the induction voltage drop in the circuit of said stator exciting winding of said cascaded'commutator machine at all times,

and the other of said component sources including a regulating line-frequency transformer, an auxiliary frequency converter in series withone of said component serially related sources so as to supply, to the exciting circuit of said commutator-type generator, a single resultant exciting voltage hav ing the proper exciting frequency and hav ing the two component parts above described, said component parts being substantially quadrature related, and a common driving connection for said commutatortype generator and said auxiliary frequen'g cy converter.

13. The combination with a main polyphase wound induction motor, of a cascaded commutator machine having polyphase commutator brushes connected-in series circuit relation to the secondary windings of said main induction motor, and having a stator neutralizing winding and an exciting circuit,

' and means whereby torque is delivered to,

or absorbed from, the shaft of said cascaded commutator machine, characterized by having a regulating apparatus for energizing said exciting circuit of said cascaded commutator machine as follows: two commutator-type frequency converters having a common driving connection, each of said frequency converters having a linefrequency slip-ring side and a slip-frequency commutator side, at least one of said frequency converters being provided with a neutralizing winding in series with the slipfrequency side, an independently variable voltage source of fixed-frequency voltages having a fixed phase position with respect to the line voltage which is applied to theprimary'windings of said main induction motor, an automaticallyvariable voltage source ofexciting-frequency voltages having a fixed phase position, and a fixed proportion, to the exciting currentsin the exciting circuit of said cascaded commutator machine,jenergizing connections between the output side of the first of said frequency converters and said exciting circuit of said cascaded com cy converters, connections between the'input side of said second frequency converter and said automatically variable source of voltages in such phase relation that the resultant voltage component appearing in the output side of said first frequency converter has substantially the precise phase and magnitude needed at all times for neutralizing the inductance voltage drops in the exciting circuit of the cascaded commutator machine, and means for introducing the said independently variable source of voltages so as to appear in substantially quadrature relation to the voltage components from said automatically variable source in the input side 0; said first frequency converter.

14 The combination with a main polyphase wound induction motor, of a cascaded commutator machine having polyphase c mmutator brushes connected in series circuit relation to the secondary windings of said main induction motor, and having a stator neutralizing winding and stator exciting Winding, and means whereby torque is delivered to, or absorbed from, the shaft of said cascaded commutator machine, characterized by having a regulating apparatus for energizing said stator exciting winding of said cascaded commutator machine as follows: two commutator-type frequency converters having a common driving connection,

ach of said frequency converters having a line-frequency slip-ring side and a slip-frequency commutator side, at least one of said frequency converters being provided with a neutralizing winding in series with the slipfrequency side, an independently variable voltage source of line-frequency voltages having a fixed phase position with respect to the line voltage which is applied to the pri mary windings of said main induction motor, an automatically variable voltage source of slip-frequency voltages having a fixed phase position, and a fixed proportion, to the slipfrequency exciting currents in the stator exciting winding of said cascaded commutator machine, energizing connections between the commutator side of the first of said frequency converters and said stator exciting winding of said cascaded commutator machine, connections between the slip-ring side of said first frequency converter and the slip-ring side of the second of said frequency converters, connections between the commutator side of said second frequency converter and said automatically variable source of voltages in such phase relation that the resultant voltage component appearing in the commutator side of said first frequency converter has substantially the precise phase and magnitude needed at all times for neutralizing the inductance voltage drops in the stator exciting winding circuit of the cascaded commutator machine, and means for introducing the said independently variable source of voltages so as to appear in substantially quadrature relation to the voltage components from said automatically variable source in the slip-ring side of said first frequency converter.

15. The invention as set forth in claim 12, characterized by the fact that said inherently operating current-r sponsive source includes a substantially reactionless current transformer.

16. The invention as set forth in claim 13, characterized by the fact that said. automatically variable voltage source includes a sul stanti ally reactionless current transformer.

17. The invention forth in claim 14, characterized by the fact that said automatically variable voltage source includes a substantially reactionless current transformer.

18. The invention as set forth in claim 14, characterized by the fact that at least one of said frequency converters has a shun connected stator exciting winding connected across its commutator side.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name this 12th day of April, 1928, at Berlin-Siemensstadt, Germany.

MICHAEL LlW'soHrrz. 

